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lingoleng
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28 January 2011 at 12:22am | IP Logged

akkadboy wrote:

My latin books are mostly bilingual Italian editions. The main reason is that Italy is the only country I know of which edits classical (and some medieval) Latin texts in cheap pocket size books (8/15 euros).

Maybe you are interested in the German Reclamverlag, too. Their cheap booklets of good quality were the first editions I could afford, and I still like and recommend them. The translations (into German) are made with care, orange books are bilingual, yellow books monolingual German. The handy format may make them worth buying even if you don't know German (yet).
To answer the burning question of the OP: Tacitus' "Dialogus de oratoribus"/Dialog über die Redner (Details) is one of the books I use to have on my desk. Clear and elegant Latin in combination with an interesting insider view of Latin rhetorics makes it a fascinating piece of literature.

-> Römische Literatur beim Reclamverlag

Edited by lingoleng on 28 January 2011 at 7:00pm
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28 January 2011 at 3:06am | IP Logged

lingoleng wrote:

akkadboy wrote:

Maybe you are interested in the German Reclamverlag, too. Their cheap booklets of good quality were the first editions I could afford, and I still like and recommend them. The translations (into German) are made with care, orange books are bilingual, yellow books monolingual German. The handy format may make them worth buying even if you don't know German (yet).
To answer the burning question of the OP: Tacitus' "Dialogus de oratoribus"/Dialog über die Redner (Details) is one of the books I use to have on my desktop. Clear end elegant Latin in combination with an interesting insider view of Latin rhetorics makes it a fascinating piece of literature.

-> Römische Literatur beim Reclamverlag

I was going to suggest these books as well. I studied Latin for four years, but it has fallen into misuse; however, I have one of the aforementioned books as a Latin/German bilingual text, for its German translation. The book is also Tacitus, but it is his Germania.
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akkadboy
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28 January 2011 at 10:57am | IP Logged

Oh I love these little books ! They fit in every pocket even the smallest.
I own some but only German authors...

Edited by akkadboy on 28 January 2011 at 11:33am

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